Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62399 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6709
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child care, and increases in women's paid work and child care coupled with decreases in unpaid work. We also find almost universal increases in the time devoted to watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over this period, especially after the mid-1980s. All these findings are consistent with previous results for the US. However, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries over the period analyzed.
Subjects: 
time use survey
leisure inequality
JEL: 
D12
D13
J2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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